All Posts: Lombardi Stories

• Georgetown Lombardi Secures Prestigious NCI Endorsement

  Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center has received the federal government’s most powerful endorsement for its work in cancer prevention, research and treatment.

  Category: Lombardi Stories Tags: cancer, health disparities, NCI designation, Ralph Lauren Center for Cancer Prevention

• Cancer Researcher Goes in New Direction with St. Baldrick’s Support

  Jeffrey Toretsky, MD, a pediatric oncologist and researcher at Georgetown Lombardi, has received a $100,000 St. Baldrick’s Research Grant with generous support from the Team Clarkie Fund, a St. Baldrick’s Hero Fund.

  Category: Lombardi Stories Tags: Ewing sarcoma, philanthropy, St. Baldrick's Day

• Georgetown Minority Health Leader Named to National Cancer Policy Forum

  Lucile Adams-Campbell, PhD, a leader in minority health and health disparities research and associate dean for community health and outreach at Georgetown University Medical Center, has been appointed to the Institute of Medicine’s National Cancer Policy Forum.

  Category: Lombardi Stories Tags: faculty honors, health disparities, minority health

• Genomic Medicine Gets Personal with New Online Course

  On June 4, 2014, more than 20,000 people will be introduced to the most personal of medicine — treatment based on an individual’s genome — and all that means for health and society through Georgetown University Medical Center’s first massive open online course (MOOC).

  Category: Lombardi Stories Tags: biomedical education, community outreach, ICBI

• Georgetown Lombardi Fields Top Fundraising Team at Avon Walk

  For Georgetown’s team of 57 walkers, months of training and fundraising culminated at the Avon Walk for Breast Cancer, where their efforts distinguished them as the lead fundraising team in the Washington region.

  Category: Lombardi Stories Tags: Avon Walk for Breast Cancer, breast cancer, philanthropy, Ralph Lauren Center for Cancer Prevention

• Fifty-year Campaign Extended Lives for 8 Million Americans

  New study that has found tobacco control measures initiated 50 years ago with the 1964 Surgeon General’s report that linked, for the first time, smoking and disease, have had a dramatic effect.

  Category: Lombardi Stories Tags: smoking, smoking cessation, tobacco control

• Ninth Annual Women & Wine Event Raises Record Funds for Breast Cancer

  More than 400 women gathered on Tuesday, April 1 for the Ninth Annual Women & Wine event benefitting the Nina Hyde Center for Breast Cancer Research here at Lombardi.

  Category: Lombardi Stories Tags: Lombardi Women, Women & Wine

• Ruesch Symposium Focuses on Molecular Profiling and the Individual Patient

  Ruesch Center’s fourth annual “Fighting a Smarter War Against Cancer” symposium held Dec. 6-7, 2013 at Georgetown University.

  Category: Lombardi Stories Tags: gastrointestinal cancer, Ruesch Center Symposium